Help!! Summer workbooks....

So every year I always tell myself that I'm going to get some school worksheets together to have my 6 kids work on over the summer. Then summer comes...and goes...with no worksheets done. Not even found or printed!

So this year, I'm on it like white on rice! I'm not even going to attempt to tell myself that I'm going to look them up and print out a whole organized "summer school" for them. I'm going to cheat and go buy those nice, glossy one's from the store.

But there's a problem....I don't know which ones to buy, and I know all you wonderful ladies can help me. Do I buy the grade they just ended, or the grade they are entering in the fall? It seems like if I got the grade they are entering, they won't know anything in the workbook, and get easily frusterated.

They aren't doing terrible in school, but they for sure could use a little extra help in math and science over the summer. More of an upkeep/study process more than a learning process.

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The summer workbooks I've seen are all bridging types, meaning for example they say for kids entering 1st grade. I believe they are meant to be mostly review, maybe with some future concepts included. Basically enough to keep the kids memories up to par.

As for where to get them, a friend of mine who taught K, 1, and 2 before having babies and I think was very good told me she gets her books at 5 Below. It never would have occured to me to look there, but I am going to check it out. There are also probably many sites online for them to try for spelling and math games and the like. Or you can try simple dice games at home. As for science, I am hoping to pick a topic this summer (like space) and touch on that on a regular basis with them to get them thinking.

Sorry, it's five Below, a chain store kind of like the dollar store, only everything is $5 or less. It wouldn't be the first place I would think of to look for books, but my friend thinks they're great, so I may try them out.

We homeschool year round, with long breaks throughout the year. But when we take breaks, we practice our math facts-flash cards, drill sheets, writing them out, oral review, etc. Other than that, we let each child pick out one book about something and we all learn new stuff about it, and one book at their reading level-and ask them to tell us about it(for reading and comprehension). HTH:)

If you have a kid that needs to learn math facts (addition/ subtraction/ multiplication/ division) ... Big Brainz has a really fun (free) online game called TImez Attack that claims a 95% fact mastery rate. Much better than a workbook IMO.